Nels and Vincent discuss the genome sequence of an ancient wooly mammoth, which shows that the three-dimensional architecture of the DNA can persist after 50,000 years.
Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
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Nels and Vincent explore a direct experimental test of Ohno’s Hypothesis, which states that gene duplication can help genes tolerate new mutations and thus facilitates the evolution of new phenotypes.
Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
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Nels – Experimental Evolution and the Nature of Biodiversity
Vincent – Is science’s dominant funding model broken?
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